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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's weird that pro-death penalty people accuse anti-death penalty people of being callous towards victims. 
The state methodically killing a person is inherently offensive. 
The concept that a person is utterly unredeemable seems to me to go against any reasonable definition of humanity. 
Given the number of cases of actual innocence which have involved people who spent time on death row, we absolutely cannot see we have not and never will execute actually innocent people. We can never assume that the judicial system ultimately arrives at the actual truth--it arrives at a construct that resembles the actual truth. I'm certain there have been people who fall into that small gap between no reasonable doubt and actual truth.

There are more people than you might think whose loved ones have been murdered who oppose the death penalty--this happened in the case of the Florida school shooting, a young man whose sibling was killed had the courage to disagree with all the people calling for the death penalty, including his own father. 
The inconsistency with which the death penalty is applied contradicts any notion that it is a fair penalty. More than once the actual murderer has gotten a life sentence while an accomplice who did not actually kill anyone has been sentenced to death. This is besides the racial disparities, including the fact that a black person who commits murder is more likely to be sentenced to death if the victim is white than if they are black.

Several prison wardens who were involved with executions eventually came to oppose the death penalty (a quick google search brings up at least 5).  In a Guardian article, another said he believes it is necessary--but he also says it does not resolve issues for 90% of family members of victims, when he reviews these cases he figures "90 to 95 percent are probably very guilty"--not just guilty, but deserving of the death penalty.

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